Apple Rhubarb Cake with Strawberries

Best Apple Rhubarb Cake

My freezer is stocked full of rhubarb, so I decided to experiment a bit and came up with this cake. It would be perfect served warm with a little vanilla ice cream.

Rhubarb grows really well in the north, so a few years ago we decided to plant a couple rhubarb plants. If you’re unfamiliar with rhubarb, it is the plant that keeps on giving. And giving, and giving and giving.

The only thing I don’t like about it is the fact that it attracts Japanese beetles in droves for about a month during the summer. In fact, the abundance of beetles led me to pull up the majority of rhubarb not once, but twice this summer just trying to get rid of them. The only thing that resulted in was more rhubarb! It grows back faster than I can give it away.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350. Melt butter and then mix in applesauce, brown sugar and vanilla. Add dry ingredients and stir together until well blended. Add rhubarb and mix until evenly dispersed. Spray a loaf pan and pour cake batter into the pan, spreading evenly. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

WE used to have rhubarb planted when I lived up north. I don’t remember the beetles, but it has been awhile. I did love making rhubarb pie, cooked rhubarb. I never used it in a cake. This looks wonderful. Thanks for sharing at Turn It Up Tuesday, Bev

when I do not get in a summer or fall visit to you I have to resort to looking for rhubarb at the store and I found some this spring and I got enough to freeze – I have found that mixed with apples it makes a nice rhubarb apple crisp as well. I have a book that has a ton of recipes in it and you can make a lot of varieties of jam also. I will try the bread.